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 | American women won the doubles US Open12-09-2011 |
American Lise Huber and Lisa Raymond won the title of Vojko women of the U.S. Open tennis. and No. 4 in the final scheme and Raymond Huber beat last year's champions and third placed Vania King (USA) and Jaroslaw Shvedov (Kazakhstan) with 4:6, 7:6 (7:5), 7:6 (7:3). 2:47 meeting continued. Lisa Raymond became the oldest champion in the women doubles Grand Slam tournament after compatriot Billy Jean King. 38-year-old Raymond won the doubles third title of U.S. Open tennis in his career, and last did so in 2005. Then her partner was Samantha Stosur (Australia), which tonight was singles champion. Billie Jean King was 36 years old when he won his 16th title of his career couples in a Grand Slam tournament of the 1980 U.S. Open. Raymond Huber and machbol saved in the second set but then won two tie-break. In the final last year, Huber and Nadia Petrova (Russia) lost to King and Shvedov. After this success, Huber will be back as number 1 in the world of couples, a place which was 147 weeks, but not after October 2010.